Remembering for narration and autobiographical memory

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal R. Norrick
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Thinking For Speaking ◽  
Narrative Format ◽  
Cognitive Mode

This article proposes a notion of “remembering for narration” based on Slobin’s (1987) concept of “thinking for speaking” to circumvent issues of autobiographical memory and focus on narrative practices. It suggests that we recognize a special cognitive mode of remembering for narration, which involves selecting from episodic memory those details that fit some conceptualization of the event for present purposes, and are readily encodable in the language and narrative format chosen for the current context. It seeks to demonstrate the value of this perspective in considering constraints on remembering in the storytelling performance in various contexts such as getting one’s story straight with input from recipients, filling in gaps in memory and conjuring up details, developing a personal narrative through co-narration, and producing appropriate personal stories in response to previous stories by other participants, and thereby sheds light on narrative processes and their significance for autobiographical memory and identity construction.

Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry science

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Van Bergen ◽  
John Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Memory Development ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Cross Cultural Research

Abstract Sociocultural developmental psychology can drive new directions in gadgetry science. We use autobiographical memory, a compound capacity incorporating episodic memory, as a case study. Autobiographical memory emerges late in development, supported by interactions with parents. Intervention research highlights the causal influence of these interactions, whereas cross-cultural research demonstrates culturally determined diversity. Different patterns of inheritance are discussed.

Unpacking the self

Forum+ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Manju Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cross Linking ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The World ◽  
Visual Artist ◽  
Sensitive Issues

Abstract In this essay, visual artist and writer Manju Sharma reflects on the use of autobiography as a methodology for storytelling in the visual arts. She focuses on the methods that she uses to explore the self and its relatedness to the world that she wishes to grasp. She also sheds light on how autobiography fits into her artistic practice as a means of finding hidden narratives and to keep the personal narrative related to the world. The essay touches upon the use of personal stories, cross-linking and note-taking to unpack everyday sensitive issues that can allow people to find their voice and to speak out.

Remote memory in a patient with amnesia due to hypoxia

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 657-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Beatty ◽  
David P. Salmon ◽  
Nancy Bernstein ◽  
Nelson Butters
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Retrograde Amnesia ◽  
Semantic Memory ◽  
Remote Memory ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Excellent Preservation ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Test Of Knowledge

SynopsisIt has been suggested that amnesic patients suffer a selective loss of episodic memory while semantic memory remains well preserved. To assess the validity of this idea we studied remote memory in an amnesic patient, (M.R.L.), using several different measures that differ in the extent which they engage episodic or semantic memory. On two different versions of the Albert et al. (1979) remote memory battery M.R.L. displayed severe retrograde amnesia (RA) extending backwards in time for about 15 years with excellent preservation of older memories. With standard recall instructions his overall performance on the Crovitz test of autobiographical memory was impaired and all of M.R.L.'s specific, temporally dated memories were given from the first half of life. When asked to reconstruct his past residential history in detail, M.R.L. provided specific and generally accurate information for residences occupied from his boyhood until 1970, but thereafter his memory became quite unreliable. On a test of knowledge of terms commonly employed the surveying profession, in which he worked for the past 20 years, M.R.L.'s performance was also impaired. The consistent pattern of RA displayed by this patient on all of the tests of remote memory indicates that both episodic and semantic memory are impaired in amnesia.

scholarly journals Sensory–perceptual episodic memory and its context: autobiographical memory

2001 ◽  
Vol 356 (1413) ◽  
pp. 1375-1384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin A. Conway
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Perceptual Knowledge ◽  
Recollective Experience ◽  
Episodic Memories ◽  
Retention Intervals ◽  
Memory Knowledge

Episodic memory is reconceived as a memory system that retains highly detailed sensory perceptual knowledge of recent experience over retention intervals measured in minutes and hours. Episodic knowledge has yet to be integrated with the autobiographical memory knowledge base and so takes as its context or referent the immediate past of the experiencing self (or the ‘I’). When recalled it can be accessed independently of content and is recollectively experienced. Autobiographical memory, in contrast, retains knowledge over retention intervals measured in weeks, months, years, decades and across the life span. Autobiographical knowledge represents the experienced self (or the ‘me’), is always accessed by its content and, when accessed, does not necessarily give rise to recollective experience. Instead, recollective experience occurs when autobiographical knowledge retains access to associated episodic memories. In this reworking of the ‘episodic memory’ concept autobiographical memory provides the instantiating context for sensory–perceptual episodic memory.

scholarly journals On the relationship between autobiographical episodic memory and spatial navigation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina L. Fan ◽  
Hervé Abdi ◽  
Brian Levine
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Spatial Navigation ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Online Study ◽  
The Common ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The Relationship

Influential research has focused on identifying the common neural and behavioural substrates underlying episodic memory (the recall of specific details from past experiences) and spatial cognition, with some theories proposing that these are supported by the same mechanisms. However, the similarities and differences between these two forms of memory in humans require further specification. We used an individual-differences approach based on self-reported survey data collected in a large online study (n = 7487), focusing on autobiographical episodic memory and spatial navigation and their relationship to object and spatial imagery abilities. Multivariate analyses replicated prior findings that autobiographical episodic memory abilities dissociated from spatial navigational abilities. Considering imagery, episodic autobiographical memory overlapped with imagery of objects, whereas spatial navigation overlapped with a tendency to focus on spatial schematics and manipulation. These results suggest that episodic autobiographical memory and spatial navigation correspond to distinct mental processes.

scholarly journals Constructing Narrative Identities in the Holocaust Memories/Memoirs of Three Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 75-97
Author(s):  
Louise O. Vasvári
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The Holocaust

Although only a decade in age separates each one from the next, the women whose life stories are discussed here represent three distinct Holocaust generations of Hungarian-speaking women. I aim to examine the recently published memories/memoirs of these three women whose narratives are all centered in the Holocaust when the deportations began in Hungary in 1944. Their personal stories are placed within a larger socio-historical context, but treat matters which come within the personal knowledge of the writer and therefore offer precisely the kind of alternative micro-history often provided by women’s narratives. All three authors also have in common that they left their homeland as young adults and hence their stories arguably belong more broadly to the most important subgenre of life writing today. While such writing is produced by both genders, writing by females predominates. My aim is, in part, to examine in the texts under discussion the three autobiographers as self-historians in their retrospective and crafted stories told (and retold) in different contexts, so that their life stories are not merely a recapitulation of past events but rather their creation of personal narrative identities.

Autobiographical Memory in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Hearing Loss, and Childhood Trauma: Implications for Social Communication Intervention

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Ashley Brien ◽  
Tiffany L. Hutchins ◽  
Carol Westby
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Attention Deficit ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder

Purpose Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) work with a variety of populations at risk for poor autobiographical and episodic memory. The purpose of this tutorial is to describe autobiographical memory and how it is affected in children with autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, hearing loss, and childhood trauma, as well as provide clinicians with practical strategies for supporting autobiographical memory in each of these clinical populations. Method This tutorial reviews the literature on (a) autobiographical and episodic memory in typical development; (b) its relation to theory of mind, personal narrative skills, and executive functions; (c) elaborative reminiscing in typical development; (d) how autobiographical memory is impaired in children with autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, hearing loss, and childhood trauma; and (e) strategies for supporting autobiographical memory in each clinical population. Conclusions When adequately prepared, SLPs are uniquely situated to address autobiographical and episodic memory in their work with children, families, and related professionals. This is a long-overdue focus of such great clinical import that justifies its inclusion in the traditional training and preparation of SLPs. Adapting elaborative reminiscing strategies for use with various clinical populations is promising for facilitating healthy EM development and related cognitive functions.

The nature of the semantic/episodic memory distinction: A missing piece of the “working through” process

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley B. Klein ◽  
Hans J. Markowitsch
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Memory Systems ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Two Systems

AbstractThe relations between the semantic and episodic-autobiographical memory systems are more complex than described in the target article. We argue that understanding the noetic/autonoetic distinction provides critical insights into the foundation of the delineation between the two memory systems. Clarity with respect to the criteria for classification of these two systems, and the evolving conceptualization of episodic memory, can further neuroscientifically informed therapeutic approaches.

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